Thermalization of a flexible microwave stripline measured by a superconducting qubit

2024/10/01 by Patrick Paluch, Paluch, Patrick, Martin Spiecker +15 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Superconducting and THz Device Technology #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.01053

Abstract

With the demand for scalable cryogenic microwave circuitry continuously rising, recently developed flexible microwave striplines offer the tantalyzing perspective of increasing the cabling density by an order of magnitude without thermally overloading the cryostat. We use a superconducting quantum circuit to test the thermalization of input flex cables with integrated 60 dB of attenuation distributed at various temperature stages. From the measured decoherence rate of a superconducting fluxonium qubit, we estimate a residual population of the readout resonator below 3.5⋅10^-3 photons and we measure a 0.28 ms thermalization time for the flexible stripline attenuators. Furthermore, we confirm that the qubit reaches an effective temperature of 26.4 mK, close to the base temperature of the cryostat, practically the same as when using a conventional semi-rigid coaxial cable setup.

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